For those who fall easy under the spell of rock and roll’s wild-haired cosmic prancer, Marc Bolan’s Demos From the Underworld is streaming on the the glam man’s legacy Bandcamp . This digital album collects a sampling of musical sketches […]
Month: April 2013
The Lagniappe Sessions :: White Fence (Second Session)
Lagniappe (la ·gniappe) noun ‘lan-ˌyap,’ — 1. An extra or unexpected gift or benefit. 2. Something given or obtained as a gratuity or bonus. Welcome to installment 19 of The Lagniappe Sessions . Last May White Fence (Tim Presley) laid down […]
Willie Nelson :: Happy 80th Birthday, Hoss
On Tuesday, Willie Nelson will turn eighty years old. If you happen to have caught him live lately, that might take you by surprise. Willie won’t be the first touring octogenarian – Ralph Stanley’s still on the […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 290: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ The […]
The Pretty Things :: She’s A Lover (1970)
Provenance: The Pretty Things ‘ fifth studio album: Parachute, 1970. No r&b bluesbreakers here — instead, proto new-wave power-pop. Two years out from S.F. Sorrow , “She’s A Lover” finds the band shedding its skin as the decade turned […]
The Velvet Underground :: The Matrix Sampler
The bones of the Velvet Underground’s carcass have been picked over many, many times since Lou Reed left the group in the summer of 1970, from greatest (non) hits comps to outtakes collections to live […]
The Bush :: Feeling Sad And Lonely (1967)
A frequent spin, I almost played this slice of 60s garage Saturday night, but ran out of time. Dig. MP3: The Bush :: Feeling Sad And Lonely
Good God! Apocryphal Hymns :: Numero Group 040
The term “apocrypha” comes from the Greek for “hidden things.” Applied the Christian Bible, it covers a wide swath of books deemed “non-canonical” by one denomination or another. The books and stories found within are pretty wild: there […]
Sevens: The Replacements – Portland
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) In 1988 the Replacements headed to a studio in Woodstock, New York in an effort to record their […]
Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona 1951-1971
Old Gold: Sonoran Country, Garage Blues, Pop, Soul, and Avant-garde from Arizona, 1951-1971 Border hawks and radical sheriffs may unjustly define Arizona’s national profile, but there are powerful vibrations still at play in the dry […]
Aquarium Drunkard Presents :: Futurebirds @ The Echo, July 23
The circus is coming to town. Los Angeles: Tuesday night Aquarium Drunkard presents Futurebirds with Diarrhea Planet and T. Hardy Morris at The Echo . We’re giving away tickets — leave a comment below with your name, an email we can reach you at, […]
SIRIUS/XMU :: Aquarium Drunkard Show (Noon EST, Channel 35)
Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU , channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday — Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST. SIRIUS 289: Jean Michel Bernard — Generique Stephane ++ Ofo […]
Le Onda Pesada De Ernan Roch Con Las Voces Frescas
English language Mexican psych joint from 1971, this one is heavy on the south of the border fuzz — and if “The Train” hasn’t been comped yet, I’m sure it’s only a matter of time. […]
Rich Ristagno :: What Would It Be Like To Be Rich? (Reissue)
Finally, a record that answers the age-old question: What would Lou Reed have sounded like if he had never left his parents’ Long Island home and just made private press LPs of oddball funk rock? […]
The Don Isaac Ezekiel Combination :: Amalinja
Spinning Fela Kuti’s proto- Africa 70 band, Koola Lobitos, for an upcoming program, I was reminded of just how seminal, loose (and great) this period of his career arc can be. And if you only know the more […]